The media have generally done a poor job of prepping folks for the great April 8 total solar eclipse.
Read moreYou are continually met with reminders of the city’s once-booming brick industry...
Read moreIn mourning decade after decade on the street, grieving for the dead multitudes who perished from injustices.
Read moreA few weeks ago came the puzzling discovery...
Read moreThe Worm Moon — Finally the increasingly-higher angle of the Sun’s rays will start to have an effect.
Read moreThe entries have been copied from the March issues of the New Paltz Independent.
Read moreEach person, to quote Bob Dylan's great anti-war anthem, wants to believe they have “God on their side."
Read morePolar winds plunge over the southeast Catskills, freezing all before them and casting frosty whiteness about as they continue to...
Read moreAn A-bomb blast like this one, but over Hiroshima, gave survivors one mile from ground zero the same radiation you’d...
Read moreTwo friends, people I still love, are no longer my companions. I hope the relationships are suspended rather than over...
Read morePre-settlement and up through the settlement era, there were many wolves (mostly grey, I believe) still in the northeast until...
Read moreThe spectacular April 8 total solar eclipse just three months away...
Read moreThe entries have been copied from the January issues of the New Paltz Independent.
Read moreFew objects are darker than the Moon.
Read moreIn hush-hush astrophysics circles there are seldom discussed lists of impenetrable cosmic mysteries. These are the tantalizing enigmas that will...
Read moreAs our Earth spins on its journey around the sun, this is the time that the northern hemisphere is tilted...
Read moreThe entries have been copied from the December issues of the New Paltz Independent.
Read moreIn 2017, this page offered good portable telescopes to anyone who’d explain why they want one. Both found grateful new...
Read moreHalf of the visual field consists of everything from eye level downward: the contents of the world.
Read moreAutumn winds — Winds of seasonal change blow across these ancient hills, lifting dry leaves from their now sapless branches,...
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